Answer: They are a few of the Groups and Institutions
Who really stepped up in 2020
Every year, we reach out to foundations and corporations, small businesses and clubs for support. It's a crucial component of our fundraising operation, as is funding from our City and County partners.

Last year, SOS Meals on Wheels found that our extraordinary effort to meet the needs of a community facing total upheaval of life as we knew it was met with an equally extraordinary response from community groups of all sizes.

ο»ΏLong-time funders provided emergency response grants. Businesses repurposed their workforce to get meals out to seniors. Groups previously unknown to us came out of the woodwork and asked how they could help. Social clubs, student and church groups donated homemade masks, blankets, and cards as well as care packages and shelf-stable food by the truck load.

ο»ΏHere is a list of groups who said "yes" and showed up for seniors in 2020.
Alameda Anesthesia Associates Medical Group, Inc.
Alameda County Area Agency on Aging
Alameda County Board of Supervisors:
  • District 2, Office of Supervisor Richard Valle
  • District 3, Office of Supervisor Wilma Chan
  • District 4, Office of Supervisor Nate Miley
Amerisink
AvalonBay Communities
Bay East Association of Realtors Foundation
Bayfab Metals Inc
Biondich Trust
Blossom Foods LLC
Bonrisu
California Fire Foundation
Castro Valley Lions Breakfast Club
City of Hayward
City of Oakland
City of San Leandro
Comfy Cozy Community Quilters
Community Presbyterian Church, Danville
Contra Costa Crisis Center - Share the Spirit
Crescent Porter Hale Foundation
Decus Biomedical, Llc.
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc
Drysdale Community Foundation
East Bay Community Foundation
East Bay Foundation on Aging (EBFA)
East Bay Paratransit
Eden Area Foundation
Eden Township Health District
Excelsior German Center at the Altenheim
Forty Niners Football Company
Fremont Bank Foundation
Girl Scout Troop #33009
Gracepoint Church, Berkeley
HumanGood Foundation West
Impossible Foods
Jess C. Spencer Mortuary
Kate Farms
Lyft
Meals on Wheels of Alameda County
Meals on Wheels America
NCCA Charitable Foundation
Oakland Rotary Endowment
OBAR Community Funds
Oliver Packaging and Equipment Co.
Pacific Farms
Patelco Credit Union
Pinpoint Foundation
Real Resources, Inc.
Rotary Club of Castro Valley
Rotary Club of San Leandro
Royal Coffee, Inc.
Safeway Foundation
San Francisco Foundation
San Leandro Garden Club
San Leandro Towing, LLC
Sereno Group 1% for Good Charitable Foundation
Sew Eurodrive
SPRSI Council #89
St. Felicitas Cross Country Team
The Braddock Family Foundation
Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church
United Lutheran Church of Oakland
United Methodist Women of San Leandro
Wells Fargo Foundation
William G. Gilmore Foundation
We are eternally grateful for the remarkable contributions from these groups, as well as from our broader community of supporters. Thank you all.

Our promise to you: We will keep fighting the good fight to keep our older neighbors nourished and connected into 2021 and beyond.

Stay safe, stay vigilant, stay healthy.
Charlie Deterline, Executive Director